He partnered up with the gentlemen who got my horses back. Didn't like Arkansas, I guess, Louisa said. The root hit him just above the knees and knocked him backward, causing him to drop the ax again. For two days he and Call and the Rangers had ridden parallel to the great southern buffalo herd--hundreds of thousands of animals, slowly grazing north.
Maybe they gave up, Pea Eye said. Lorena was satisfied. Work, the one thing that had always belonged to him, no longer seemed to matter. It was a depressing irony, for Gus had always been one to preach diplomacy with the red man and over the years had engaged in many councils that Call himself thought pointless.
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